Tag Archives: Francis Ford Coppola

failure: discomfort of hazard and chance

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Dave

Are the fragments of our lives ruled by laws of random events and unpredictable chance? A single moment can irrevocably alter the course of a life. We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.Lifelong certainties about the world can … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Francis Ford Coppola, Francisco Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, james d. campbell, Jean Baudrillard, Joseph Beuys, marc seguin | Leave a comment

A NON-NARRATIVE GAZE: The Snuff Between The Action

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

It is a popular video on the web at the moment; yet it is eerie and creepy since there is an actual murder that takes place off camera about two minutes in. In other words a police officer killed John … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Dominic Holden, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Grace Kelly, Jacques Lacan, James Stewart, John T. Williams, Josh Feit, Keith Ranville, Laura Mulvey, Maurice Blanchot, Norman Bates, Pascal Bonitzer, Seattle police officer Ian Birk, Seattle street artist No Touching Ground, Sofia Coppola, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Dave

“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, C.Douglas Lummis, Carl Jung, Cervantes, Charles Nodier, Don Quixote, Erasmus Darwin, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Gérard de Nerval, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Gerog Buchner, Godfrey Reggio, Gregory Corso, Henry Fuseli, Jack Kerouac, Keith Moon, Keith Moon The Who, Ken Russell Gothic, Levi Asher, Michel Foucault, Niccolo Paganini, Philipe Pinel, Plato, Plato Republic, Quasimodo, R.D. Laing, Rene Descartes, Richard Dadd, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sam Fuller Shock Corridor, Shakespeare, Socrates, Stephen A. Diamond, Victor Hugo, William Blake, Willianm Burroughs | Leave a comment

Zombie As Time Capsule in Unstandard Time

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Dave

Morbidity as an art form. Decomposition as composition. Shain Erin’s morbid art dolls. Handmade reconstructions of civilizations that are imaginary and never existed. In the absence of factual evidence, they could not have been created out of the void.Somehow the … Continue reading →